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classical ruins of Salona have been 1954 Hague Convention for Protection Yugoslavia's jeopardized during military attacks at of Cultural Property in the Event of nearby Split airport. Armed Conflict, of which Yugoslavia "Dubrovnik, a 2,OOO-year-old town, itself is a signee. The scale of the Monuments which has been registered by UNESCO destruction has been compared in as one of Europe's most important modern European history only to the cultural monuments, has been a site of Nazi German bombing of English under Siege particular and ongoing desolation. cathedrals and monuments in 1942. Despite its lack of any military signifi­ "We call on you to do everything cance of armed resistance, hundreds of possible to bring this destruction to an Dubrovnik's churches, cathedrals, and end." other sites have been attacked or The letter, dated November 12, n the wake of recent world events, destroyed in a prolonged siege. 1991, was signed by then CAA presi­ the College Art Association felt "This unparalleled destruction of dent Ruth Weisberg and president-elect I compelled to express its deep artistic properties is in violation of the Larry Silver. concern regarding the destruction of monuments in Yugoslavia. A letter of protest was sent by CAA's Executive Committee to UNESCO; the Embassy of the SPRY; B.O.R.B.A.; Vjaesnik ( newspaper); Radio Yugoslavia; HRVATSKI Radio; the International Herald Tribune; the Times; and the World Monuments Fund. The letter reads as follows: "The College Art Association, a professional organization of 12,000 artists and art historians, wishes to bring to your attention the unparalleled destruction of Croatian art and cultural properties currently being undertaken by federal Yugoslavian forces and Serbian militias in the course of Yugoslavia's civil war. Hundreds of churches, castles, and historic monu­ ments have come under attack in a concerted campaign to destroy Croatian cultural properties. "Associated military attacks have The Church of St. John the Baptist in included the famed SI. Jacob's Cathedral Sarvas, Yugoslavia, built in 1774, is among the 274 area churches destroyed in in Sibenik, Vukovar's museum and shelling and bombing in the civil war. This castle, numerous Baroque buildings in photograph was taken after the church the former capital city ofVarazdin, and was partially destroyed by mortar attack the 18th-century church in Petrinja, on August 12, 1991. The church was completely destroyed August 17. 1991. among many others. In addition, the MUSEUM AND GALLERY CENTER OF ZAGREB designer Connie Wilson, published by act now to infonn the president and the University of New Mexico Press in Contents NEA's Congress that federal arts funding is Signs of association with the Des Moines Art vital to us, our students, our children, Center for the traveling exhibition of the Volume 17, Number 2 and our communities and must must not same name, Rule without Exception offers be reduced or eliminated. Can the White Achievement March/April 1992 Vacant a new way to analyze a creative work House comment line 202/456-1111 and about creative work. Spare but elegant, Yugoslavia's Monuments let the president know: (1) you believe text and image interwoven, domestic 1 under Siege Post strongly that the country needs national and international scholars discuss the endowments for the arts (NEA) and work of Baltz, juxtaposed with the im­ humanities (NEH), which support both he College Art Association's agery of work of the last 23 years. 2 NEA's Vacant Post avant-garde and traditional art and annual convocation ceremony The jury commends all involved scholarship; and support both individu­ was held at the Chicago Hilton with this publication for its interesting, als institutions; (2) you urge him to T n February 21, John Frohn­ and and Towers, February 14, 1992. The Lo­ entertaining, and above all innovative 3 Signs of Achievement mayer, chair of the National appoint an NEA chair who will continue cal Committee chairs Kevin Consey and approach to the printed word and O Endowment for the Arts, these dual levels of support-avant­ Anthony Jones welcomed the audience image. resigned under pressure from the White garde and traditional, individuals and to Chicago. The evening then proceeded From the President 7 House, following conservative Republi­ institutions; (3) creativity and excellence with the ceremonial passing of the CAA Committee: Judith E. Stein, chair; Kevin E. can Patrick Buchanan's strong showing must continue to be supported without presidency from Ruth Weisberg to Larry Consey; Harry Rand in the New Hampshire primary and restrictions on content; and (4) federal Silver. It was up to Silver to preside over Elizabeth C. Baker 8 1992 Art History Sessions Buchanan's attack on federal support of support is key to the partnership the presentation of awards for excellence PHOTO: ANN MEREDITH "offensive" art. In his resignation between individual artists and scholars in teaching, scholarship, creativity, statement, Frohnmayer stated, "I believe and their communities, and between arts more fair-minded, more multitalented, Studio Art Sessions in Chicago criticism, and conservation. James Luna 9 that adequate federal government institutions, colleges, universities and concluded the festivities by delivering and more widely informed than any ear­ support of the arts, free of content schools, and the communities they serve. a stirring keynote address and perfor­ lier one. Impressed by her stylish intelli­ 10 CAANews restrictions, is vital to our educationat Without federal support these partner­ mance. gence, many of Betsy's writers and economic, community, and intellectual ships are in danger of withering away. The following are the award readers are redirecting this association's How to Make a Difference success as a country. When I leave In addition to contacting the presi­ recipients and their citations: priorities. Usually the CAA's awards go 11 Affiliated Society News government, I expect to work ... for the dent, let your senators and representa­ to artists, teachers, and scholars, and growth and enrichment of our society­ tives know the value of the NEA and Betsy is none of these in any narrow for quality art, for less hate, and for NEH. We must educate legislators about College Art Association sense. Instead she is a sort of shepherd the role of the arts and humanities in 12 Solo Exhibitions by Artist Members generosity of spirit that allows us to live Special Award for Lifetime watching over the association's creative, with our differences in real community." their home states and districts because, intellectual, and critical flock. Frohnmayer will leave office May 1; a unfortunately, many legislators are Achievement The College Art Association is People in the News unaware of the real value of support to Presented by Charles Stuckey 14 successor has not been appointed. pleased to make a special award to Julia Brown Turrell It is clear that NEA has become a individuals and institutions v'Jithin their Awarded to Elizabeth C. Baker Elizabeth C. Baker for her distinguished political football in this year's election own communities. Many seem to be contribution to the arts. Grants, Awards, & Honors and that its very existence is threatened. unaware of the devastating impact of the During the last twenty years or so, 17 colleges have slowly but steadily College Art Association! Therefore, it is essential that all who care loss of federal support. Committee: College Art Association extended the same recognition to National Institute for • Board of Directors 18 Conferences & Symposia contemporary art events and people as Conservation Award for to more remote history. No one indi­ Distinction in Scholarship vidual has done more to guide this and Conservation 19 Opportunities massive intellectual shift than Elizabeth College Art Association C. Baker, who became editor-in-chief of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award Presented by Barbara Heller Classified Ads Art in America in 1973. From the outset Presented by Judith E. Stein Awarded to Robert L. Feller 22 Miscellaneous she has tirelessly advocated clarity of Awarded to Julia Brown Turrell thought, breadth of cwiosity, diversity Robert L. Feller has made major contri­ Information Wanted of opinion, and the importance of color The 1992 Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award for a butions to scholarship and conservation 24 Datebook reproductions as no less important than 1990 publication is presented to Julia since he first entered the field forty years words. She goes almost everywhere, Brown Turrell for Rule without Exception: ago. After earning a Ph.D. in physical gallery by gallery, studio by studio, city Lewis Baltz, published by the Des Moines chemistry frornRutgers University, he CAA News, a publication of the College Art joined the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, Association, is published six times a year. by city, and listens as nearly as possible Art Center. The catalogue documents a Material for inclusion should be addressed to: to everyone in a continuously successful moving study of a 1967 to 1990 body of Pennsylvania, where he was fenow, and effort to integrate and anthologize the work by one of America's most impor­ then senior fellow, in charge of the Editor National Gallery of Art Research Project CAANews disparate enterprises that Art in America tant living photographers. The publica­ on artists' materials. In 1976 he became 275 Seventh Avenue presents as intellectual current events. tion is a fine example of the strengths of New York, New York 10001 She encourages crossing over, urging collaboration and the ability of smaller director of the Center for Materials of Telephone: 212/691-1051 historians to attempt journalism, artists institutions to create innovative, the Artist and Conservator, established through a grant from the Andrew Editor-in-Chief Susan Ball to attempt scholarship, and critics to authoritative publications in the Mellon Foundation. He became director Managing Editor Virginia Wageman write art history. Thanks to such contemporary art field. Editor Nancy Boxenbaum Conceived as a collaboration emeritus in 1988. Susan Ball, CAA executive director, intellectual creativity as hers, this between the artist Lewis Baltz and the Dr. Feller's research has been wide- © 1992 College Art Association, Inc. and Larry Silver, CAA president generation of art people is less earnest,

CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 3 2 CAA NEWS MARCHI APR(L 1992 College Art Association justice, and whether distributed in the connoisseur of drawings, prints, and history of landscape painting in which on the exhibition Mexico: Splendors of Distinguished Artist Award streets or hung in galleries, Rupert paintings, he teaches how to glean in Pissarro's work is embedded. His book Thirty Centuries. With consummate skill for Lifetime Achievement Garcia's art is a powerful, beautiful, them the workings of the artist's mind is subtle and open-ended, illuminating Goldman dissected the implications and Presented by Joseph Mannino revolutionary force. and hand and to discern those from the choices made by the artist that results of the converging forces and Awarded to Rupert Garcia changes wrought by time or interven­ produce in his works the fruitful tension interests that impinged on this enter~ Committee: Joseph Mannino, chair; Camille tion. Not surprisingly, his former pupils between painter and landscape, between prise. It is my pleasure to present this year's Billops; Phillip Chen; Margaret Lazzari include distinguished professionals in . pictorial and actual reality, and between Her article "Metropolitan Splen­ CAA Distinguished Artist Award for every arena, in the museum and the tradition and modernity. By concentrat­ dors" may be seen in the context of Lifetime Achievement to Rupert Garda. market as well as the university. ing on Pis sarro as a man obsessed with Goldman's long-standing scholarship on For almost twenty-five years, his work College Art Association Egbert Begemann's generosity is the making of pictures, and by analyz­ art from Latin America and its attending has been exhibited from Canada to Distinguished Teaching legendary. Everything that he knows, ing his habit of constructing the formal issues. So it is with a great deal of Mexico and Cuba, France and Germany of Art History Award everything that he has-including the relationships between all the parts of his pleasure that we designate Shifra M. greatest library of Netherlandish art in compositions rather than seeing a Goldman recipient of the Frank Jewett to Honolulu. Last year he was honored Presented by Susan Barnes private hands-he shares with all who dominant "motif" set against a back­ Mather Award for 1992. with a retrospective exhibition of over Awarded to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann one hundred pieces at the Fine Arts are interested. He is most lavish with ground, Brettell clarifies Pissarro's place that most precious commodity, time. In in the development of modernism and Museums of San Francisco. Thirty-three years ago, Egbert the many hours he spends one-on-one, places this notoriously elusive artist A founder of the Bay Area move­ Haverkamp-Begemann carne to the whether analyzing a work of art, or more solidly than ever before in the ment of Chicano-Latino art in the 1960s from his native Holland, discussing an article over tea and history of nineteenth-century art. and 1970s, Rupert Garcia gained and to academe from a museum career. national recognition as a graphic artist sandwiches, he conveys the methods of Robert L. Feller with his commanding political posters eye and mind that are the model one Committee: Paula Harper, chair; Jack of resonant colors and demanding stretches to attain. We are very pleased Brown; Andree Hayum ranging. He carried out pioneering work compositions. By the 1980s his work had to honor this great Doktorvater of at the Mellon Institute on resins and developed a complexity of images and Netherlandish art. solvents and the development of layering, producing individual paint­ College Art Association synthetic picture varnishes-a new field ings with internal contradictions, Committee: Susan Barnes, chair; Anne Frank JeweU Mather Award in the 1950s-and co-authored a book forCing the viewer to think critically Coffin Hanson; Lilien Robinson; Mark Presented by John Kissick titled On Picture Varnishes. He has done about the disparate ideas and images. Thistlethwaite Awarded to Shifra M. Goldman significant research on the deteriorating Underlying all of these works is an and Eleanor Heartney effects of light, a subject which relates to overriding social concern. museum lighting, a very important In an essay for Garcia's Distin­ College Art Association aspect of preventative conservation. guished Artist Series exhibition at the Charles Rufus Morey Award Finally, Dr. Feller has published and Haggin Museum, the noted author Presented by Paula Harper lectured widely on the role of color and presents a Awarded to Richard R. Brettell pigment in works of art, which has had compelling case for the artist's position dramatic impact on art scholarship and in the contemporary world: "Rupert is a The Charles Rufus Morey Award for Eleanor Heartney conservation. plain-speaking man. I asked him if 1990 is presented to Richard R Brettell Dr. Feller is a member of numerous viewers have any trouble understand­ for Pissarro and Pontoise, published by Eleanor Heartney is a young critic honorary and professional conservation ing his work. 'No/ he said, 'people Yale University Press. Brettell makes an whose by-line is seen in a number of societies and has held several key understand my work right away. But important and original contribution to contexts. What is impressive is her positions in the International Institute sometimes the message is unbearable to Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann Pissarro scholarship and to the history ability to tackle sensitive and unpopular for Conservation and the American them.'" That message is a call for social PHOTO: ANN MEREDITH of Impressionism. He focuses a sensitive issues in art with intellectual rigor and Institute for Conservation. He served as and knowing eye on Pissarro's paintings philosophical balance. Given her chairman of the National Conservation To the eternal enrichment of his col­ of Pontoise from 1866 to 1883, calling on welcome and weighty analysis of Advisory Council from 1975 to 1979. leagues and students-first at Yale, then his mastery of an extensive literature on various aspects related to abstract art­ During these critical years, the council at the Institute of Fine Arts-he never the city and its environs and on the particularly during the 1980s when determined that a national effort to abandoned either. As his student one is figuration held such a dominant preserve our cultural patrimony was brought directly into an international position-it was instructive to read of imperative and entrusted the National arena, introduced to one's colleagues her opinions on the issue of multi­ Institute for Conservation to carry out from throughout the u.s. and Europe by culturalism. In her article "The New that effort Dr. Feller's advice has been the most widely respected person in the Word Order" Heartney peels back the sought by and freely given to scholars, field; intimately acquainted with the veneer of multicultural verbiage to conservators, and conservation scientists institutions, the professionals, the reveal pitfalls of hardened positions on internationally, and he has set an publications, and the activities in Shifra M. Goldman either side of the ideological balance. It example to be admired and emulated in Netherlandish art everywhere, he makes is a lesson we would well heed. We are the application of scientific research to them accessible to all. As his student one In the art world, exhibitions are most therefore pleased to confer the Frank conservation and scholarship. is also brought time and again to often conceived within heady aesthetic Jewett Mather Award to Eleanor confront the complexity of original ambiances. Where politics intrude they Heartney for 1992. Committee: Maryan Ainsworth, CAA; works of art, in museum galleries and are conceived along conceptual lines. So Gridley McKim-Smith, CAA; Barbara storage areas, in private collections, Rupert Garcia Richard R. Brettell it is refreshing to read something like Committee: Lowery Sims, chair; Joan Hugo; Heller, NrC; Ross Merrill, Nrc PHOTO: ANN MEREDITH galleries, and auction houses. A great PHOTO: ANN MEREDITH Shifra M. Goldman's hard-hitting article John Kissick

CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 4 CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 5 I overturns the concept of the artist-as­ continues, "Vernon's love of teaching Most impressive is Professor isolated-genius implicit in Wright's own truly exceeds the monetary rewards we Fisher's choice to teach beginning de rigueur claims of independent From the President offer." through graduate painting courses. invention and firmly embeds Unity While Professor Fisher's faculty Irrespective of the course level, he is Temple in an intellectual and cultural peers and students rate his performance known as a fair, demanding, challeng­ tradition, deeply enriching our apprecia­ in the upper 10 percent of a departmen­ ing, and effective teacher. "He expects tion of both the building's meaning and tal faculty of fifty people, it is under­ students to speak about their work with Wright's own achievement. In combin­ Look scored that his "effectiveness as a intelligence and to be candid and ing a study of theology, social theory, teacher is the success of his students as constructive in their critiques of others." and architectural practice, revealing the they begin their lives as professional Irrespective of style, the highest intellectual and religious environment Around artists. Many of his students, such as achievement for Professor Fisher is in which Wright's work developed, Susan Harrington, John Hernandez, and quality. Joseph Siry's admirable article exempli­ Elaine Hanson, have received national fies interdisciplinary art history at its recognition for their work in Art in Committee: Murry DePillars, chair; Leonard best and will serve as a model for future America and other journals." Hunter; Carolyn Manosevitz; !delle Weber i monumentum requiris, studies of Wright. circumspice ("If you wish to see a monument, look around"). Committee: Patricia Leighten, chair; Charles S Those brief Latin words were penned M. Edwards; Linda Hults for Sir Christopher Wren and are inscribed as his memorial on the interior north door of St. Paul's Cathe­ Ann Hamilton dral, London. But they are just as PHOTO: RICHARD NICOL relevant to our College Art Association on its 80th anniversary. You can see much of what is going College Art Association absorbed into her work we are trans­ on with CAA today by perusing this Award for Distinguished fixed, challenged, and moved by her CAA News. To start with, you are Body of Work, Exhibition, remarkable mind, talent, and spirit. reading a column from the president, Presentation, or Performance which began under president Phyllis Bober. Further information details the Presented by Susan Rankaitis Committee: Susan Rankaitis, chair; Awarded to Ann Hamilton Beauvais Lyons; Antonio Mendoza; annual conference and the most recent Lorraine Peltz; Richard Posner CAA awards, now much expanded and more democratic in committee member­ Dominion, an installation at the Wexner ship (under president Ruth Weisberg, Center in Ohio, reflected the extraordi­ the Governance Committee reviewed nary spatial structuring and ecological College Art Association the charges to all CAA committees and implications of the midwestern land­ Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize (re)defined committee operating and scape. It is, therefore, a great pleasure to Presented by Patricia Leighten staffing procedures, calling for the first present the College Art Association Awarded to Joseph Siry time for nomimations and self-nomina­ Distinguished Body of Work Award to Joseph Siry tions from the membership, both for Ann Hamilton here, in Chicago. With Joseph Siry's "Frank Lloyd Wright's awards and for standing Board commit­ corncobs, corn husks, a steel bassinet, Unity Temple and Architecture for tees). Often the interested newsletter and three species of moths, Ann Liberal Religion in Chicago, 1885-1909" reader discovers a legal column by Hamilton transformed a complex thoroughly alters our understanding of Barbara Hoffman, CAA's honorary architecturally gridded interior into an the history and meaning of Wright's College Art Association counsel, and timely infonnation from environment that glowed with the major early commission. Superbly Distinguished Teaching the executive director, Susan Ball. Of presence of living cycles. Her strategies documenting the theological beliefs and of Art Award late, these columns frequently concern of systems have resulted in a number of social convictions of the Unitarian and Presented by Carolyn Manosevitz themselves with artists' rights and the strikingly successful installations that Universalist churches, Siry analyzes Awarded to Vernon Fisher political movements swirling around beautifully meld organic and inorganic attempts within the Unitarian commu­ public funding of ar!making and materials. Dominion, sited in her nity to create an architecture expressive Professor Vernon Fisher earned his research. Reaffirming One of the hometown of Columbus, must certainly of their beliefs in the twenty years undergraduate and graduate degrees purposes stated in its by-laws, CAA rank as a particularly important previous to Wright's commission. More from Hardin-Simmons University and has become actively involved in installation for Ann Hamilton. The artist than that, by looking deeply into the the University of illinois, Urbana­ advocacy issues, defending the rights of has said that we cannot escape technol­ abundant literature of these churches, he Champaign, respectively. artists and scholars, among others. ogy since it is a necessary and important demonstrates the ways these ideas In the letter of nomination, it was This newsletter is also the place to part of our daily existence. It must be extended to a highly articulate architec­ noted that his "success as an artist has find out about colleagues, about their fully integrated into the humanities as a tural theory reflective of their created a financial situation in which he movements and promotions, their tool in practice, not as something comrnunitarian values. Showing how no longer needs to be affiliated with a awards and honors, or the sad news of separate and outside. The power of Ann that program informed Wright's university. In fact, most artists of his their deaths in the obituaries. This is Hamilton's vision is such that as we are architectural conception, the author stature no longer teach." The nominator where the calls for papers for the Vernon Fisher annual conferences get announced,

6 CAANEWS MARCH/APRIL 1992 CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 7 where fellowships and symposia and Jahn's State of Illinois Building to the other opportunities are publicized. This virtuosity of Laurie Anderson's wit and 1992 Art whether verbal or visual. This is not to with the logistics of working with our were two years ago, and that made the is the nexus of both business and mesmerizing sounds to the virtuosity of say that "traditional" art historical session chairs to help put together the entire project worthwhile. We also friendship in the art community. In the Lonnie Brooks Blues Band (and the research no longer has a place in the panels; we would like to believe that the would like to thank our respective short, this is tlte place to look to find out gyrations of CAA members who got History academy. But if we are to take seriously large crowds that filled our sessions institutions-the School of the Art what is going on at CAA; moreover, this their mojo working at white heat). our discipline in 1992 in light of the (often to overflowing) were a testament Institute of Chicago, DePaul University, informative and expanded newsletter Credit the Local Committee, headed by conference, we will have to recognize to our good fortune in organizing topics and Northwestern University-for their now appears every other month. Kevin Consey and Anthony Jones! Sessions that new perspectives challenge us to of interest to the CAA constituency. We cooperation, understanding, and Ours is an active organization, as The Chicago conference was the take stock of our agenda and to assess have learned that our audience is a support. It was our pleasure to work you can see around you. And much of 80th held by the College Art Associa­ our approaches to research with a new voracious one, with widely differing with each of the 33 studio art chairs who that activity, much of that interchange tion, and at this advanced age, the self-consciousness. interests and agendas, all linked by a organized their panels, and with Sandy among artists, critics, and art historians, organization and its programs and -Sandra Hindman, Art Histonj Program great desire to hear issues discussed Hindman, and we benefited greatly or between academics and museum publications appear to be in very good Chair with intelligence and expertise. We hope from the support of Ruth Weisberg, professionals, has intensified under the health indeed. The Art Bulletin, cur­ onsidering Encounters, the that issues raised in Chicago, particu­ Phyllis Bramson, Judith Brodsky, Susan stewardship of Ruth Weisberg, herself a rently edited by Richard Brilliant, theme of the 1992 meeting, larly on the theme of cultural diversity, Ball, Suzanne Schanzer, and the CAA distinguished painter-printmaker and buzzes with a wide range of articles as C provided a stimulating will not be overlooked in the forums to staff. Like all enormous projects, this writer about art. Ruth deserves credit well as the editor's own provocative experience for art historians who come. one had its range of delights and for much of the increased communica­ statements. Art Journal continues its own attended the conference. Field sessions If such a thing is permissible, we tribulations-but we more than ever tion across CAA's national constituency, sequence of stimulating themes, most that focused on individual areas defined would like to begin our acknowledg­ believe in the premise that it is crucial on both East and West coasts as well as recently tackling the issue of censorship chronologically, or in some cases ments by thanking one another. We each that diverse ideas be brought to light in the heartland between. frontally with both text and image. The geographically, enabled conference Studio Art brought specific skills and specific and that we can learn much more Ours is an era of hyperspe­ monograph series has published several goers to survey recent research in the address books to this project, and we together than we can alone. cialization, and there has often been talk important new book-length studies. discipline. Thematic sessions, often quickly learned how we could exploit -Jeanne Dunning, Bibiana Suarez, and of splitting CAA into smaller groups, Up-to-date directories of postgraduate crossing chronological and geographical Sessions in each other's talents for the common James Yood, Studio Art Program Chairs such as separating out the art historians programs at the M.A., M.F.A., and boundaries, provided a forum for a good. We are better friends than we from the artists. Weisberg has rightly Ph.D. levels are now available from variety of topics, many around the resisted all such splintering of the CAA. As as for eAA News, look around encounter theme: the relationship of Chicago organization, now over 12,000 strong you! different cultural groups, the relation­ and a powerful unified force when One further note concerns a final ship between different cultures in global invoked for issues of mutual concern. contribution by Ruth Weisberg to CAA: terms, and the relationship between While trying to allow greater voice to she donated a magnificent print of her different points of view. the particular interests of CAA mem­ etching Ruth and Naomi as a parting Theory appeared in this year's bers, both at the annual conference and personal gift, which will be displayed in program as an organic foundation t has been almost two years since through affiliated societies, the Board of the New York office. The theme is central to much art historical research Phyllis Bramson first contacted us Directors has in recent years led an entirely appropriate to Weisberg's and criticism. At many times during the I about serving as studio art program organization-wide focus on an ex­ multilayered yet devoted service to the meeting, my own reactions were chairs for Chicago's 1992 CAA confer­ panded annual conference, which now organization, "Whither thou goest, I will colored by my memory of a moment ence. It's difficult to remember now includes a (resurrected) M.F.A. exhibi­ go." Except in this case, Ruth Weisberg during the 1989 conference in San what we originally thought the range of tion and much closer liaison with local has led rather than followed. As we bid Francisco. In a session titled "Martyrium our responsibilities would be-we museums and art institutions. Not all of hail and farewell to Ruth Weisberg on Then and Now," organized by John certainly didn't foresee the dozens of this has sprung up overnight. But it is the completion of her presidency, we Williams, Annabel Wharton gave a meetings, tlle hundreds and hundreds of instructive to go back to conference can rejoice in the manifold contributions paper on "Rereading Martyrium: The letters and phone calls and faxes, and programs from twenty years ago to see she has made for many years to the Modernist and Postmodernist Texts." In the unending plethora of administrative how much has changed in terms of vitality and the openness of this shared brief, her message was "how thor­ details that would occupy us until range and quantity in both the art organization-and we can hope that she oughly the past is constructed in the February 1992. Now that all those are history and the studio art sessions. In will continue to offer her experience, her image of the present." After she finished behind us, of course, they didn't seem so fact, the most extensive changes and guidance, and her wisdom to CAA reading, there was dead silence in the insurmountable after all, and during the expansion in the conference have come during its ninth decade. room. Finally a member of the audience convention itself, we admitted to one about since the ground-breaking -Larry Silver stood up to counter, angrily, I thought, another a great sense of satisfaction with The 1992 M.F.A. exhibition, held meeting in Los Angeles in 1985. that Wharton's postrnodernist reading how things finally turned out. in conjunction with CAA's conference in Chicago, was hosted by the School of the Anyone who just attended the of the past attacked what stood at the We began our task recognizing that Art Institute of Chicago's Gallery 2, conference in Chicago could not fail to center of the enterprise of historical holding a conference in 1992 offered us a January 31-February 26, 1992. The show, be overwhelmed by the abundance of inquiry. In the three intervening years, special opportunity to focus attention on "CAAlMFA," included the works of M.F.A. stimulating programs for all interests, art historians have not embraced a the wide range of issues surrounding candidates from NorthWestern University, including some wonderful sessions on the quincentenary of Columbus's the University of Chicago, the University postrnodernist perspective. Far from it. of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia College, museum acquisitions and the But, the 1992 conference emphatically encounter with the Americas. That and the School of the Art Institute of reinvention of open sessions, which expressed that it is no longer possible to became the centerpiece around which Chicago. proved to be marvelously varied. take a purely empiricist stance. It is no we first arranged our energies, and our PHOTO: ANN MEREDITH Likewise, many of you must have seen longer possible to accept the sanctity of call for session proposals brought us or heard what a spectacular success the history. It is no longer possible to argue many intriguing contributions to that gala was-from the virtuosity of Helmut for the transparency of language, topic and other issues of interest. The months that followed were consumed

8 CAANEWS MARCH/APRILl992 CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 9 Committee on Electronic Informa~ CAA How to tion: 1 opening, The goals of the Affiliated Committee on Electronic Information include the education of scholars and art News Make a professionals on issues and resources in Society information technology, and collabora­ tion with other associations and Difference interested parties in the coordination of News problems related to the collection, New Monographs formatting, and transmission of elec­ Published tronic data. Committee on Cultural Diversity: The College Art Association, in associa­ Italian Art Society 2 openings. The Committee on Cultural tion with the Pennsylvania State Univer­ Diversity is charged with the recogni­ to Hold Session sity Press, has recently published two tion and support of the contributions, at CAA in 1993 books in its Monographs on the Fine he membership is urged to talents, possibilities, and needs of New Inquiries in Italian Art is an open Arts series. participate in CAA by serving individuals whose cultural, ethnic, and The New York Cruciform Lectionary, session sponsored by the Italian Art T on the association's diverse and racial identities and sexual preference Society to be held in conjunction with by Jeffrey c. Anderson, is a study of a increasingly active committees. Commit­ are different from the majority and with CAA's 1993 annual conference in rare illuminated manuscript in the tee members serve for fixed terms of their increased inclusion within the Seattle. It will embrace all Italian art Pierpont Morgan Library, unusual three years; at least one new member association and within the field. from the time of Constantine to now, because its scribe laboriously copied rotates onto a committee each year. Each Museum Committee: 2 openings. using all types of methods and materi­ every page of text in the shape of a committee is composed of at least three The Museum Committee monitors the als. The session seeks to make public cross. It is one of three such manuscripts members, and the chair of each commit­ activities of public and private institu­ whatever has not been in our field of made in Constantinople around the Carol Radcliffe Bolon tee is ordinarily a member of the CAA tions in the art sector, particularly in awareness before, from a newly found middle of the 12th century, and it is the Board of Directors, relation to acquisition, deaccession, and work of art to a theory, and everything only one that contains narrative illustra­ Committee candidates must exhibition policies and procedures, in in between. It may then depart from tion, attributed to two illuminators. An­ The 192-page book, with 69 illustrations, MacNaughton was randomly selected possess expertise appropriate to the order to exercise influence and share novelty with respect to other character­ derson is associate professor of art his­ is available from Penn State Press for from among the conference goers who committee's work and must be CAA efforts in issues of mutual interest, istics of the discussion used to support tory at George Washington University. $42.50 ($31.75 for CAA members). flew on American Airlines to College members in good standing. Members of particularly in matters of presentation, the presentation of the discoveries, Fonns of the Goddess Lalia Gauri in Art Association's 1992 annual confer­ all committees volunteer their services preservation, conservation, access for Priority will go to what is thought likely Indian Art, by Carol Radcliffe Bolon, is ence in Chicago. To be eligible for the to the association without compensation scholars, and education of the public. to interest the most listeners. Send an examination of the images of Lajja drawing, travel to Chicago had to have and serve for fixed terms of three years Professional Practices Committee: proposals to: Creighton Gilbert, Dept. of Gaud, a female goddess with various been on the association's official carrier (1992-94). Nominations for committee 1 opening. The Professional Practices the History of Art, Yale University, PO names in Indian lore who often has a for 1992, American Airlines, and tickets memberships should include a brief Committee responds to specific con­ Box 2009, Yale Station, New Haven, CT lotus flower in place of a head, with her had to have been purchased though statement outlining the individual's cerns of the membership in relation to 06520-2009. Deadline: May 31,1992. legs drawn up in the hirth-giving CAA's travel agency, Zenith Travel. The qualifications and experience and a areas such as job placement and resume. Self-nominations are encour­ position, Because there are no texts to free tickets, which are for business-class recruitment, tenure and promotion Affiliated Societies explain the figure, the study proceeds travet are valid for any American aged, (There are also openings on procedures, scholarly standards and from the basis of the objects to derive Airlines European destination. CAA's awards committees; see the ethics, studio health and safety, and Add Dimension to their meaning. Bolon is assistant curator Each year CAA negotiates with air January (February newsletter, pages 9- artists' practices. Annual Conference 10.) Write to: Committee Nominations, of South and Southeast Asian art at the carriers to get the lowest fares available Committee on Women in the Arts: The College Art Association wishes to CAA, 275 Seventh Ave., New York, NY Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer to a particular conference site. The 1 opening. The Committee on Women in extend its thanks to the affiliated socie­ Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The airline offering the best combination of 10001. Deadline: May 1,1992. the Arts is charged with promoting the ties that enriched the program of the Advocacy Committee: 4 openings, 184-page book, with 131 illustrations, is service and discounts is designated the scholarly study and recognition of the 1992 annual conference in Chicago, available from Penn State Press for official conference airline. By traveling The Advocacy Committee identifies contributions of women within the either through their own sessions or issues or legislation that would warrant $47.50 ($35.75 for CAA members). on the conference airline, conference visual arts, developing linkages with through co-sponsorship of sessions with Monographs on the Fine Arts are attendees save money through dis­ CAA support, establishes positions on organizations concerned with compat­ the art history and/ or studio art pro­ issues affecting the visual arts, and under the editorial direction of Nicholas counted airfares while also helping CAA ible interests, and monitoring the grams or with committees of the CAA Adams, professor of art history at earn credits toward free tickets that makes those positions public through current status of women in the visual Board of Directors. The activities of the Vassar College. Inquiries should be would otherwise have to be purchased, appropriate means. arts professions. American Institute for Conservation of addressed to him at the Department of As an added incentive this year, those Education Committee: 2 openings. Historic and Artistic Works, the Art li­ The Education Committee reviews Art, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY individuals who used the conference braries Society /North America, the 12601. carrier also had the opportunity to win career options and development op­ Association of Research Institutes in Art portunities available to arts graduates; the valuable tickets that were awarded History, the Gay and Lesbian Caucus, maintains an awareness of fine art and Peter Anderson, Portrait of Conference Attendee to Mary MacNaughton. Historians of Netherlandish Art, the ----- art history programs at the college and Jeffrey C. Anderson Italian Art Society, the Visual Resources PHOTO: J. LAKE Wins Tickets graduate levels; collects data on depart­ Association, and the Women's Caucus Two round-trip airline tickets to Europe ments, curricula, and resources such as for Art were valuable additions to the were won by Mary MacNaughton of libraries; and maintains an awareness of CAA program. Scripps College, Claremont, . art education at the K-12 level.

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NORTHEAST/ Sidney Geist. New York Studio School, New Maud Gatewood. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Solo Nancy Azara. A.I.R. Gallery, New York, January York, February 13-March 14, 1992. "Sculpture University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 28-February IS, 1992. Sculpture. from Seven Decades." February 16-March 22, 1992. Paintings. William Bailey. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New Margaret Grimes. Blue Mountain Gallery, New Harold Gregor. South Gallery, Florida Exhibitions York, March 26--April25, 1992. Paintings. York, February 28-March 18, 1992. Community College, Jacksonville, January 9- February 6, 1992. Paintings. Rande Barke. E. M. Donahue Gallery, New Susan Hambleton. Paul Cava Gallery, York, March 26--Apri129, 1992. Paintings. Philadelphia, Apri13-May 2, 1992. Works on lain Machell. Gallery A, College of Creative paper. Arts, West Virginia University, Morgantown, by Artist Sally Barker. Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, January 13-29, 1992. "In the Cage," installation. Mass., September 27-November 5, 1991. Peter L. James. Kaaterskill Gallery, Columbia­ "Liminal Presence." Greene Community College, Hudson, N.Y., Members February 6--26, 1992. "Eden Leaves," paintings. Stephanie Bernheim. A.LR. Gallery, New York, February 18-March 7, 1992. "Stealths and Silos." Ellen Lanyon. Berland Hall Gallery, New York, April 30-May 23, 1992. Paintings. Only artists who are eM members are included Mona Brody. Kent Place Gallery, Summit, N.J., in this listing. When submitting information, January 6-31, 1992. Paintings and works on Pam Longobardi. Kathryn Sennas Gallery, New include name of artist, gallery or museum name, paper. York. "Historical Markers," paintings and prints on copper. citt), dates of exhibition, medium. Please indicate Lynn H. Butler and Harold Olejarz. Bergen CAA membership. Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, N.J., Beauvais Lyons. Print Club, Philadelphia, Photographs are welcome but will be used only if December 19, 1991-February 9, 1992. "On the January 31-March 14, 1992. "Selections from the space allows. Photographs cannot be returned. Range," photographs, sculpture, performance. Hokes Archives." Hwa Young Choi Caruso. Charter Oak Cultural Lenore Malen. M-13 Gallery, New York, Center Gallery, Hartford, Conn., January 19- January 9-February I, 1992. "No More Sand ABROAD/ February 11, 1992. Paintings and drawings. Art," drawings and books. Robert Delford. Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy, May 26-June 6, 1992. "Ikons of the First Anthony Cuneo. Amos Eno Gallery, New York, Clarence Morgan. Pennsylvania Academy of the National Church of the Exquisite Panic, Inc," March 7-20, 1992. Fine Arts, Philadelphia, January IG-February 23, 1992. "Sign as Metaphor," paintings. Maria Reyes Fee. Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Queens College Art Center, Flushing, N.Y., Jim Morphesis. Hal Katzen Gallery, New February 3-28, 1992. "Turning to the Next York, November 27, 1991-January 4, 1992. CANADA/ Page." Paintings. Works Gallery, Long Beach, Calif., February 7-March 8, 1992. Paintings and works Graham Cantieni. Le Musee Pierre Boucher, Pat Feeney-Murrell. Noho Gallery, New York, on paper. Trois-Rivieres, Canada, January 20-February 16, January 7-26, 1992. "Body Signs." 1992. Stephen Murray. Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Robert Feintuch. Daniel Newburg Gallery, New Gallery, Columbia University, New York, York, February 12-March 14, 1992. February S-ApriI4, 1992. "Notre-Dame, lain Machell with his paper Phyllis Bramson, Masking the Blow, Oriole Farb Feshbach. Davison Art Center, Cathedral of Amiens: An Orderly Vision," sculpture and text installation MID-ATLANTIC/ 1991, mixed media, 68" x 68" Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., photographs. titled In the Cage PHOTO: MICHAEL TROPEA March 24-June 7, 1992. "illuminations for Lisa A. Bartolozzi. Delaware State Office Tim Nichols. Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Asphodel by ," collage Building, Wilmington, February 1992. February 4-29, 1992. "Post Bone," paintings and and mixed media. Leigh Behnke. National Academy of Sciences, drawings. Phyllis Bramson. Dart Gallery, Chicago, Forty-Year Retrospective, 1951-1991," paintings, Karen Finley. The Kitchen, New York, January Helen Sear. Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Washington, D.C., January 23-March 27, 1992. Philip Orenstein. Amos Eno Gallery, New York, February 7-March 4, 1992. "Vicissitude," watercolors, and drawings. 24-February I, 1992. "Memento Mori," Carolina University, Greenville, N.C., January '''The City Transformed," paintings. February IS-March 5, 1992. "Post No Bills," paintings. Celia Rabinovitch. KelUleth Beck Center for the installation. 14-February 8, 1992. "Threshold," installation. Jeff Gates and Lisa Lewenz. Baltimore Museum paintings and drawings. Jane Cash and Susan Palmisano. Rosewood Cultural Arts and the Beck Center Museum, Walter Shroyer. Paine Gallery, Greater Bluefield of Art, March ll-May 24, 1992. Photographs. Faith Ringgold. Bernice Steinbaum GaBery, Arts Centre Gallery, Kettering, Ohio, January Lakewood, Ohio, March 10-April18, 1992. "The Arts and Crafts Center, Bluefield, W.Va., New York, January IS-February 18, 1992. "TIle Takako Nagai. Anton Gallery, Washington, 14-February 14, 1992 Paintings, drawings, and Grotto Cycle and Other Paintings." YYZ Artists November 29, 1991-January 31, 1992. "Rocks, French Collection." D.C., February 21-March 14, 1992. sculpture. Outlet, Toronto, Canada, April 24-May 23, 1992. Trees, and Hills," ceramics, bronzes, pastels, and "The Grotto Cycle," paintings. Peggy Cyphers. Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Elizabeth Tracy. Tompkins College Center oils. Gallery, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pa., Chicago, February 7, 1992. Paintings. Kathryn J. Reeves. Art Gallery, Mount Vernon Stanley Sporny. Galerie Simonne Stern, New Nazarene College, Mount Vernon, Ohio, December 9, 1991-January 24, 1992. Paintings. Dana Goodman. Rosewood Arts Centre Gallery, Orleans, February 13-April15, 1992. "R..itual MIDWEST/ February 3-28, 1992. Works on paper. Allan Wexler. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New Ruckus." Karen Baldner. Paper Press, Chicago, March 21- Kettering, Ohio, May 26-June 26, 1992. Ceramic Rowen Schussheim-Anderson. Quad City Arts York, January 4-February 8, 1992. April 27, 1992. "Privacy," draWings. sculpture. Center, Rock Island, February 12-March 14, Leonard Han. Women's Art League Gallery, m., Janet Ballweg. Government Center Gallery, 1992. "Peruvian Impressions," tapestries. Kettering, Ohio, January 6--February 7, 1992. South Bend, Ind., January II-February 23, 1992. Deborah Stromsdorfer. Clack Art Center, Alma WEST/ Paintings, drawings, and prints. "Tales, Traditions, and Hidden Secrets." College, Alma, Mich., January 4-February 5, Richard Bolton. Capp Street Project/ AVT, San Noreen Horwitz and Ann Elizabeth P. Nash. SOUTH/ Les Barta. Quincy College Art Gallery, QUincy, 1992. Drawings. Stonehouse Gallery, Fredonia Francisco, February IS-March 28, 1992. "Subject: Rosewood Arts Centre Gallery, Kettering, Ohio, Susanne Arnold. First Union Gallery, Spirit m., January 13-February 3, 1992. Gallery One, Arts Council, Fredonia, Kans., April 6--24, 1992. Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, N.C., Male Violence," installation. August 18-September 18, 1992. Photographs, New England School of Photography, Boston, "Floral Abstractions-Art Deco Series," January 10-February 22, 1992. "Echoes." 1708 paintings, prints, and drawings. Linda Okatch Brown. Artistic Galleries, February 20-March 12, 1992. Photographic drawings. East Main Gallery, Richmond, Va., February 7- Scottsdale, Ariz., January 9, 1992 conshUctions. Miriam Karp. Rosewood Arts Centre Gallery, Ruth Weisberg. Spertus Museum, Chicago, 29,1992. "Buried Voices EhUria/Appalachia." Kettering, Ohio, September 29-October 30, 1992. Julia Couzens. Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Richard Beard. Northern Illinois University Art February 6-May 31, 1992. "The Scroll." Gwenda Gail Bach. Kurtz Culhtral Center, Winchester, Paintings and drawings. University of Nevada, Reno, March 20-Apri120, Museum, DeKalb, January 16--March 8, 1992. Jay Gallery, Chicago, February 7-March 7, 1992. Va., March 6-April15, 1992. "Fragmented 1992. Drawings. "Academic Animals Satire Series," paintings. Susan Martin. Sybaris Gallery, Royal Oak, Paintings and works on paper. Landscapes." Mich., January IG-Februo.ry 8, 1992. Srulphue. Audrey Flack. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, March Judith A. Beckman. Rosewood Arts Centre Beauvais Lyons, Two Aazudian Pat Colville. Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East 24-May 17, 1992. "Breaking the Rules: A Gallery, Kettering, Ohio, July 7-August 7, 1992. Wilbur Niewald. Kansas City Art Institute, Youth Shake Nuts from a Tree, Carolina University, Greenville, N.C., January Retrospective 195G-1990," paintings and Photosculpture. Kansas City, Mo., March 8-Aprill8, 1992. "A lithograph, 14" x 11" 14-February 8, 1992. Paintings and drawings. sculpttue.

12 CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 CAANEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 13 sHy. In 1969 he was awarded the gold medal for earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at to preserving and restoring the monuments and distinguished archaeological achievement by the Berkeley in 1947 and 1948 and then studied with frescoes of Venice. People in Archaeological Institute of America. Meyer Shapiro at Columbia where he received his doctorate in 1953-the first Ph.D. in 20th­ Greta Kempton, a portrait painter, died James M. Carpenter, who developed the art century art in the United States. In 1955 he December 9,1991, at age 89. Born in , she the News department and museum at Colby College, died joined the Berkeley faculty. He was a dedicated moved to the United States in the early 1920s, February 11, 1992, at age 77, when he drowned and innovative teacher. His undergraduates where she studied art at the National Academy along with his daughter, Jane Poliquin, 36, an were stimulated by his inventive multiscreen of Design and the Art Students League. She art conservator. Carpenter earned bachelor's and projections, and his graduate students recall the painted portraits in Hollywood of movie studio doctoral degrees from Harvard University, trips to his cabin and the memorable picnics in heads Louis B. Mayer and Adolf Zukor, and in where he taught for seven years. He went to Inverness. His tireJess devotion to his students the 1940s she painted several members of the Colby in 1950, where he strengthened the art continued well beyond his retirement. Truman administration. history program and founded the art museum, Chipp's depth of knowledge, his gentle serving as its director for seven years. He retired personality, and his genuine humanism were Spiro Kostof, an architectural historian, died in 1981. Poliquin graduated from the University greatly admired by his colleagues, students, and December 7,1991, at the age of 55. A professor at In Memoriam of Pennsylvania and studied conservation at the friends here and abroad. His counsel and the University of California, Berkeley, he was University of Delaware. She worked as an art presence will be deeply missed. both the author and on-camera host of the Berenice Abbott, photographer, died December conservator at several museums, including the -Peter Selz special television series "America by Design." 10,1991, at the age of 93. After studying briefly , the Fogg and Peabody Born in Istanbul, he came to the United States in at Ohio State University, she went to New York musetuns at Harvard, and the Los Angeles 1957, where he studied and then taught at Yale and then on to Europe in 1921, where she County Museum of Art. University until 1965, when he moved to worked as a darkroom assistant to Man Ray. She Berkeley. He served as president of the Society first achieved fame in in the 1920s, taking Moshe Castel, an Israeli artist, died December of Architectural Historians from 1974 to 1976, photographs of famous artists and writers, and 12,1991. He was 82. His art employed imagery and in 1988 he received an Institute Honor from Stanley Sporny, Ribbon Ruckus, then became known for her black-and-white from ancient Hebrew and Arabic letters and the American Institute of Architects for his 1991, oil on canvas, 43" x 70" photographs of in the 1930s. She archaeological artifacts from the Middle East. teaching and writing. later turned to scientific photography and Castel helped to found the New Horizons invention. Abbott's work has been featured in group, which had an impact on the moderniza­ Charles Nagel, a former museum director, died exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution's tion of Israeli art, and he completed two large February 20, 1992, at the age of 93. A practicing Manuela Friedmann. Takada Fme Arts, San Museum of History and Technology, the commissions for the Israeli government. architect until 1942, he was curator of decorative Francisco, May 6-June 3, 1992. Paintings. Museum of Modern Art, and the New York arts at the Yale Art Gallery from 1930 to 1936. Herschel B. Chipp, a renowned scholar of Wolf Gowin. Irvine Civic Center, Irvine, Calif., Public Library, among others. Nagel was director of the Brooklyn Museum modem art as well as a former CAA board from 1946 to 1955, and from 1955 to 1964 he was February 7~April21, 1992. "Sculpture Court." Mary Childs Black, an art historian, folk art member from 1961 to 1964, died of a massive director of the 5t. Louis Art Museum. He then Judit Hersko. University Art Gallery, University expert, former musetun director, and writer, stroke on February 8, 1992, in San Francisco. went on to become the first director of the of California, Riverside, March 15-May 3, 1992. His book TIleories of Modern Art was pivo­ National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian ''Memories in Dark and Light," installations. died February 28, 1992. She was 69 years old. Black began her career in 1956 as a research tal in making documents and art theories acces­ Institution, a position he held until 1969. He Elizabeth Leigh Knowles. Gallery Milepost assistant at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. sible. The book facilitated an awareness of the received a B.F.A. in 1926 from Yale University Nine, Arizona Western College, Ytuna, February She went on to be curator at the Abby Aldrich importance of theory and helped to bring about and a Ph.D. in fine arts from MacMurray 10-March 13, 1992. Prints. Rockefeller Folk Art Center in Williamsburg and a change of outlook in the art historical disci­ College, Jacksonville, Il1., in 1956. pline from a formalist to a contextual approach. Eric Kotila. Wurster Hall, College of Environ­ was named its director in 1961. In 1964 she It became a significant tool in the study of John Goldsmith Phillips, former chair of the mental Design, University of California, became director of the Musetun of American modem art. It is also the best-selling book ever Department of Western European Art at the Berkeley, February 13-28, 1992. "Figurous Folk Art, and in 1969 she moved to the New­ published by the University of California Press. Metropolitan Musetun of Art, died February 17, Excursions," works on paper. York Historical Society as curator of sculpture, Herschel B. Chipp, 1913-1992 painting, and decorative arts. Black graduated Herschel Chipp did not hesitate to focus on 1992. He was 85. Phillips joined the Met as an Nancy Macko. Gallery II, Fine Arts Center, from the Women's College of the University of this century's foremost artist. His book Picasso's assistant curator in 1929, immediately after Washington State University, Pullman, North Carolina at Greensboro in 1943, did Guernica: History, Trails/ormation, Meanillg graduating from Harvard University, and he December 3-22, 1991. "Matters of Concern," graduate work at Catholic University in (University of California Press, 1988) deals with Minna Citron, a painter and printmaker best remained there lliltil his retirement in 1971. He collages and monotypes. West Los Angeles City Washington, and earned a master's degree Picasso's greatest work and probably the most known for her Social Realist images of New then became a consultant to Sotheby's in Palm Hall Gallery, February 17-March 20, 1992. in art history from George Washington important history painting of the 20th century. York, died December 21, 1991. She was 95. In the Beach, Fla. A specialist in the art of the "Inner Landscapes." University in 1952. She was the author of Chipp was instrumental in having the painting late 1920s she studied at the Art Students Florentine Renaissance, he was the author of Roland Reiss. University of Arizona Musetun of numerous books on folk art, photography, and returned to Spain after the end of Fascism in that League, and she had her first solo exhibition in numerous articles and books. country and was an honored guest at its 1930 at the New 5chool10r Social Research. In Art, Tucson, February 16-March 29, 1992. /fA American art. Seventeen-Year Survey." installation in the Prado on Picasso's 100th the late 1930s she taught art and painted murals Mahler Ryder, professor of illustration at the Oscar Broneer, an archaeologist and former birthday in 1981. for the Works Progress Administration. She Rhode Island School of Design, died February Fritz SchoIder. Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Herschel's own curiosity as well as switched to abstraction in the 1940s. Her work is Julia Couzens, Bloodline, #4, professor, died February 22,1992, at the age of 27,1992, at the age of 54. Ryder had been on the Ariz., March 1-21, 1992. circumstances made him a witness to many in the collections of numerous museums, 1991, charcoal, 44" x 30" 97. Broneer discovered the site of the Temple of faculty of the school since 1969 and was also a ---_._-_._- Kathy Gaye Shiroki. North West Gallery, ----- Poseidon at Isthmia in 1952. Born in Sweden, he significant events in our time. He was a naval including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the painter, sculptor, and pianiSt. He attended the Northwest College, Powen, Wyo., January 20- received a bachelor's degree from Augustana lieutenant at the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Musetun Columbus College of Art and Design and Ohio February 12, 1992. ''Writing in Tongues." College, Rock Island, Ill., and a master's degree served at Guadalcanal. When he waS in Paris on of American Art, the National Museum of State University and studied at the Art Students a Fulbright Fellowship in 1951, he met Picasso, American Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sarah Thompson. Merlina Art Center, Tacoma, from the University of California, Berkeley. He League and the School of Visual Arts in New an encounter that determined the course of his Sculpture Garden. Wash., December 1-12, 1991. Paintings. also studied at the Institute for Advanced Study, York. A founder of the Studio Museum in Princeton. In 1927 he joined the faculty of the work. In Berkeley he recognized the importance Harlem, he served as the museum's executive Andre Van Zij1. Antioch University, Marina del American School of Classical Studies in Athens, of the free speech and antiwar movements, and Rollin Van Nostrand Hadley died February 2, secretary in 1966-67. He had a solo exhibition at Rey, Calif., January 28-March 13, 1992. "The becoming a professor and eventually director he compiled an impressive collection of posters 1992, at the age of 64. Hadley was director of the the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973 Enigma of Arrival: A Personal Journey," from 1940 to 1952. From 1948 until his retire­ from these historical events. He was back in Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and numerous other exhibitions in the United paintings and works on paper. ment, Broneer was professor of archaeology and Paris during the student uprisings there in 1968 from 1970 until his retirement in 1988. After States, Canada, and Europe. classical languages and literature at the and then in Prague during the suppression of graduating from Harvard in 1950, he later went University of Chicago and director of its the Prague Spring, where he saw Soviet tanks in on to get a master's degree in art history in 1981. Catherine Viviano, art dealer, died January 7, excavations at Isthmia. He also held visiting Wenzeslaus Square. From 1974 to 1988 he served as president and 1992. She was 92 years old. From 1950 to 1970 professorships at UCLA and Stanford Univer- Born in New Hampton, Missouri, Chipp then chair of Save Venice Inc., a group devoted she ran the Catherine Viviano Gallery in New

CAA NEWS MARCH/APRIL 1992 15 14 CAANEWS MARCH/APRIL 1992 York She srudied at the School of the Art Ellen L. Meyer has been named president of the Colleges, received a Museum Professional The Capp Street Project has announced its Institute of Chicago and then went to New York Atlanta College of Art. She had been director of Grant from the National Endowment for the program participants, and the following CAA in the 1930s, working for the Pierre Matisse continuing education and special programs at Grants, Arts for research for a book on Adolph members have been selected: James Luna, Gallery, where she stayed for 16 years. After Rhode Island School of Design. Gottlieb. Valley Center, Calif., Off-Site Program; and Fred closing her own gallery, she continued working Wilson, New York, Artist-in-Residence as a private dealer and consultant. Mara Miller is assistant professor of philosophy Awards, & Chloe Maglietta, sculptor, has received a 1992 Program. and director of Asian studies at Drew Univer­ Individual Artists Grant from the Queens William H. Wolff, a dealer in Asian art, died sity. She was previously a research associate at Council on the Arts Regrants Program for a The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation December 16, 1991. Wolff sold Asian bronzes, the Center for Historical Analysis at Rutgers Honors collaborative art installation with Norma Awards for 1991 have been announced, and the antiquities, and wood and stone sculpmre to University. Greenwood titled Metaphysical Encounters. following CAA members have been thus important collectors and museums, including honored: Julia Fish, Chicago; Jack Risley, New the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Nancy Polster is chair of the Department of Art Publication policy: Only grants, awards, or honors William Rubin, director emeritus of the York; and Buzz Spector, Los Angeles. Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum of San and Design in the College of Design, Iowa State received by individual or institutional members of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Francisco, the Musee Guimet, the Victoria and University, Ames. She has been on the College Art Association are listed. The grant/award/ Museum of Modern Art, was promoted by the The National Endowment for the Arts Visual Albert Museum, and the British Museum. university faculty for 27 years. honor amount is not included. Please nofe French Consulate in New York to the grade of Artists Fellowships for new genre artists, the following format: officer in the French Legion of Honor. painters, and works-on-paper artists have been Individual members: cite name, institutional announced, and the following CAA members Academe Museums and Galleries affiliation, and title of the grant, award, or honor. Laura Ruby, instructor of art at the University of have been thus honored: for new genre, Richard Institutional members: cite name of organization, , Manoa, is the recipient of a 1991-92 Bolton, Cambridge, Mass.; and Lynn Jonathan Block has been appointed dean of the Stephen Bonadies has been named chief title of the grant, award, or honor, and (optional) New Forms Regional Initiative Artist Project Hershman, San Francisco; for painting, Rene design faculty at Whitecliffe College of Art and conservator and head of the Cincinnati Art use or purpose of grant. Please indicate that you Grant administered by Los Angeles Contempo­ Allain, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Nicholas Blosser, Design, Auckland, New Zealand. Museum's Conservation Deparhnent, where he are a eAA member. rary Exhibitions with the Rockefeller Foundation Chehalis, Wash.; Diane Burko, Philadelphia; has worked for the past 10 years. and the National Endowment for the Arts, for Anda Dubinskis, Morrill, Maine; Sara Frankel, Grace C. Stanislaus the creation of an intermedia installation, "A Honolulu; Nancy Friese, Cranston, R.L; Rodney J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery PHOTO: JOE VERICKER View with a Room," exhibited at the Hawaii Loa Harder, New York; Hung Liu, Oakland, Calif.; of Art in Washington, D.C., for the past 22 years, College Gallery. Dennis Masback, New York; Sandra Rubin, has announced his retirement. He will continue Boonville, Calif.; and Jeffrey Spencer, Omaha, to serve on the boards of nUlllerous art Lorraine Schwartz, assistant professor of art Nebr.; for works on paper, Nancy Brett, New instimtions around the United States. history at Western illinois University, has York; Aida Mancillas, Solana Beach, Calif.; and Joan Carpenter Troccoli is the new director of Linda A. Bartolozzi has received an Individual received a grant from the Illinois Humanities Buzz Spector, Los Angeles. the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Okla. She had Artist Fellowship as an Established Professional Josi Callan has been appointed director of the Council to support the exhibition "Recovering a been exhibitions curator at the museUlll for 2 in Painting from the Delaware State Arts San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, Calif. She had Heritage: Prehistoric Art from West-Central The 1991 Western States Art Federation! years. Council to continue oil paintings and drawings been the museum's associate director and then Illinois." National Endowment for the Arts Regional in wax. interim director. Visual Arts Fellowships have been awarded to Julius Tobias, painter and sculptor, has received the following CAA members: for photography, Rudie Berkhout has been awarded a Shearwater Peter Doroshenko is Engelhard Curator of the Organizations a Richard A Florsheim Art Fund Award to Kaucyila Brooke, San Diego, Calif.; and Mark ------Foundation Award. Museum at the Contemporary Arts Museum, extend the exhibition of his work at Artemisia Charles Olsen, Pullman, Wash.; for sculpture, Houston. He was curator of paintings and Timothy Gunn is the director of National Video Gallery, Chicago, and Painted Bride Gallery, Beth Lindsey Gellar, Boulder, Colo.; Jean Paula Braswell has received a Regional Arts sculpture at the Everson Museum of Art, Resources, a project of the Rockefeller Founda­ Philadelphia. Lowe, San Diego, Calif.; James LUna, Valley Projects Grant through the National Endowment Syracuse, N.Y. tion. He had been director of product marketing Center, Calif.; and Kathy Gaye Shiroki, Casper, for WNET /Thirteen. for the Arts Inter-Arts Program and the Brian Whitfield has won the Basil H. Alkazzi Wyo. Rockefeller Foundation. Teri J. Edelstein has been appointed deputy Award for 1991 with which he intends to set up director of the Art Institute of Chicago. She Cynthia Ries is executive director of the Ohio a studio to produce a new body of work. Linda Butti, artist, has been selected by the had been director of the David and Alfred Alliance for Arts Education in Columbus. She National Organization of Italian-American Smart Museum of Art at the University of had been director of planning and special Women as an honoree to celebrate Women's Chicago. projects at the New York Foundation for the Arts. History Month, March 1992. A reception was held in her honor at the Snug Harbor Culmral Carole Ann Klonarides is media arts curator at Center, Staten Island, N.Y. the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, Gwen Walden is program officer at the Getty Jonathan Block Calif. She had been an artist and curator in New Grant Program, Santa Monica, Calif. She was Isabel S. Cooper has been installed as an active York. previously program associate. member in art in the National League of American Pen Women. Her thesis, " Dean Krakel, fonner executive director of the and the ' Movement," has been Maureen Ciaccio is assistant professor of art at Thomas Gilcrease Museum, National Cowboy accepted into the archives of the Library and Denison University, Granville, Ohio. She had Hall of Fame, and the High Plains Heritage Research Center of the National Museum of been an instructor at the Cheltenham Center for Center, is director of research, appraisals, art Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. the Arts in Pennsylvania. assessment, and acquisitions at Troy's Gallery, Scottsdale, Ariz. Alvin Frega has been awarded a 1991-92 North Johns Hopkins University has announced the Carolina Arts Council Grant to Individual following appoinhnents: Mark Antliff is Franklin W. Robinson has been named director Artists for the creation of a chalice sculpture assistant professor of modern art; Henry of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at from a mrn-of-the-century riveted steel water Maguire, director of smdies at Dumbarton Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. He was tower. Oaks, is adjunct professor of Byzantine art; previously director of the Museum of Art at the Walter Melion has been named associate Rhode Island School of Design. Pam Longobardi has been awarded a 1992 professor; and Daniel Weiss is a Mellon Fellow. Research Development Grant from the Grace C. Stanislaus has been appointed director University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to produce a Dorothy Bosch Keller, chair, has been promoted of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She was suite of collotype prints at Light Print Press. to full professor of fine arts/art history at Saint formerly a curator at the Studio Museum in Joseph College, West Hartford, Conn. Harlem. Mary Davis MacNaughton, curator of exhibitions at the Galleries of the Claremont Brian Whitfield

16 CAANEWS MARCH/APRTLl992 CAA NEWS MARCH/APRIL 1992 17 Present~Day Artistic Traditions and Craft Tech~ History and Archaeology, University of The Glass Art Society will hold its 22nd annual Center for the History of Art and the Humani­ nologies is the theme of a conference to be held Calls for Entries Conferences Maryland, College Park, MD 20742; 301/405- conference in Mexico City, May 14-17, 1992. The ties, 401 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90401; in conjunction with the South Asia Conference 7720. focus of the conference will be multiculturalism 310/458-9811; fax 310/458-6661. Madison, Wis., November 6-7, 1992. Papers, ' and historic and contemporary influences on art. Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts will limited to 20 minutes, may involve both works & Symposia The Sculpture of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Through lectures, panel discussions, and Museums 2000: Toward More Inclusive hold a point and shoot exhibition in September in progress and completed studies. Among the van Bruggen will be the subject of a symposium, demonstrations, the conference wilI address Institutions is a conference to be held at the 1992, open to artists whose imagery is derived concerns of the conference will be methodolo­ April 11, 1992, at Case Western Reserve past, current, and future directions and trends in Children's Museum, Boston, July 16-18, 1992. from any kind of point and shoot camera. Send gies for investigating present-day artists who University. For information: Dept. of Art, the world of glass. The multicultural diversity of The conference will address staff and board 10-20 slides, numbered and labeled, with a work in traditional modes as a means for Mather HOUSe-Art History, Case Western art will be stressed. For information: Glass Art separate checklist including name, type of developing theoretical frameworks for the composition and training; exhibition and public­ Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7110; Society, 1305 4th Ave., Seattle, WA 98101-2401; program development strategies; collections camera, process, titles, dates, dimenSions; interpretation of premodern artistic traditions. 216/368-4118. 206/382-1305; fax 206/382-2630. issues; mutually beneficial community support materials including a statement about Other issues might include the artist in society, collaborations; multicultural teacher training; point and shoot work, C.V., etc.; and SASE to: aesthetic judgments, modes of production, and Tung Ch'i~ch'ang, the late Ming dynasty artist, The Northeast Document Conservation Center Robert Hirsch, Point and Shoot, SUNY at continuity of tradition. Submit proposals to: audience diversification; and fund raising and will be the subject of a symposium, April 17-19, will hold a seminar, May 15, 1992, titled "The public relations issues. For information: Beth Buffalo, Dept. of Art, 303 Bethune Hall, Buffalo, Frederick M Asher, Dept. of Art History, 107 1992, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Care and Conservation of Oversized Paper Perdue, 617/426-6500, ext. 406. NY 14214; 716/831-3477; fax 716/831-2392. Calls for Papers Jones Hall, University of Minnesota, Minneapo­ Themes to be discussed are ideology and :Artifacts," at the Connecticut Historical Society Deadline: April 30, 1992. ------lis, MN 55455; J. Mark Kenoyer, Dept. of culture; theory and practice; connOisseurship ill Hartford. The program is designed for Dress, Art, and Society in Edo~Period Japan is Anthropology, 1180 Observatory Dr., University International Conference on Critical Thinking and criticism; legacy and transformation; and librarians, archivists, curators, museum the subject of an international symposium to be Contemporary Scandinavian Art is the subject of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706j or Joanna G. and Educational Reform will be held at Sonoma calligraphy and tradition. The symposium will administrators, and others with responsibility held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, of an exhibition to be held in fall 1992 at the Williams, Dept. of Art History, 405 Doe Library, State University, August 9-12, 1992. Proposals provide not only a forum for scholars from for collections induding oversized paper objects November 14-15, 1992, in conjunction with the Forum Gallery and the James Prendergast University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720. are sought for sessions on any aspect of critical around the world to exchange ideas, to present such as maps, posters, architectural draWings, opening of a related exhibition. The program Library's Art Gallery, Jamestown, N.Y. The thinking. Illis year's theme is Cultivnting the the latest research on Tung and his time and the prints, and drawings. The seminar will focus on will examine the contextual framework of Edo­ exhibition is open to all media and will include Reasoning Mind: Teaching, Testing, Standards, and legacy he bestowed upon future generations, the special preservation needs of oversized period dress including the interrelationship of work that directly or abstractly explores Assessment; not all sessions need address this To Attend but also a unique opportunity to reappraise materials and techniques for conservation dress and other art forms, social and economic characteristics unique to Scandinavia. A theme. Organizers are particularly interested in the development of Chinese painting and treahuent. For information: Gay Tracy, determinants of fashion, and technical catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Send sessions that examine the role of critical thinking 17th~Century Chinese Porcelain is a sympo­ calligraphy in generaL For information: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 100 considerations. For information: Dale Gluckman max. 10 slides, support m

18 CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 CAA NEWS MARCHI APRIL 1992 19 cross-cultural identity. Submissions must requirements include U.S. citizenship and Ph.D. required. For information, send SASE to: historical context, as well as the project's outlook for academic employment, including 5-11 and August 2-8,1992, in the Gila Wilder­ include 10-20 labeled slides, resume, reviews or comparable professional qualifications; for Women's Studio Workshop, PO Box 489, purpose; ACLU Briefing Paper on Artistic Freedom, information on changes in the age distributions ness region of southwest New Mexico, and writings about the work, SASE, and I-page certain fields like the fine arts, the terminal Rosendale, NY 12472. Deadline: April 15, 1992. answers to questions commonly asked about of faculties, trends in enrollment, shifts in the photographing natmal environments from artist's statement discussing central themes in degree may be sufficient. For lecturing awards, censorship, obscenity, and arts funding; popularity of fields of study, changes in the canyons to geologic anomalies, Mimbrian the current work related to issues of cross­ university or college teaching experience is Prestel Verlag, international publisher of art Pornography and the First Amendment, a I-page faculty-student ratio, and the continuing cliff dwellings, petroglyphs, and ghost cultural identity. Send to: Margo Macluda, c/o expected. Language skills are needed for some books, offers 3-month internships to college handout in question-and-answer format; and the increase in the time spent by the typical towns. Enrollment is limited to 12 participants. Asia Society Galleries, 725 Park Ave., New York, countries, but most lecturing assignments are in students, graduate students, or interested First Amendment, Censorship, and Government graduate student in obtaining a doctorate. For information: Anthony Howell, Western NY 10021. English. Applications are encouraged from persons in its European offices in Mllllich, Funding of the Arts, a background paper detailing Published in 1989, the book is available for New Mexico University, Expressive Arts professionals outside academe and from Germany. Some knowledge of German is an attacks on NEA, with practical and legal $29.95 from: Princeton University Press, 41 Dept., PO Box 680, Silver City, NM 88062; Photo Review, a journal of photography, is independent scholars. For information: Council advantage. The next available period is August arguments against content-based funding William St., Princeton, NJ 08540-5237; 609/258- 505/538-6614. sponsoring a photography competition; for International Exchange of Scholars, 3007 IS-November 15, 1992. For information: Anne restrictions. The materials are free and available 4900; fax 609/258-6305. accepted entries will be published in its summer Tilden St., NW, Suite 5M, Box NEWS, Washing­ Heritage, Pres tel, Mandlstrasse 26, D-8000 from: John Hlinko, ACLU Arts Censorship The Renaissance in Europe is the topic of the 1992 issue. $16 for up to 3 prints, and $4 for up ton, DC 20008-3009; 202/686-7877. Deadlines: Munich 40, Germany; (0) 89-381 70952; fax (0) Project, 132 W. 43rd St., New York, NY 10036; 1992 summer teacher institute at the National to 2 additional prints. Send SASE for further JUlle 15, 1992, for Australasia and South Asia; 89-381 709 35. 212/944-9800, ext. 420. Gallery of Art. The program allows teachers of information: Photo Review, 301 Hill Ave., August I, 1992, for Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin Above the Law: The Justice Department War Workshops and Schools all subjects, K-12, to explore the cultural context Langhorne, PA 19047. America, the Middle East, and Canada. against the First Ame/ldment is a 22-page report of in Italy and Northern Europe. Calls for Manuscripts documenting efforts of the U.S. Justice The New York Academy of Art has inaugurated Studies revolve around the gallery's collection Riverwalk Arts Festival and Exhibition is Travel to Collections is a program of the ---- Deparhnent to suppress sexually oriented a 6-week intensive program in the theory and of Italian and Netherlandish painting, sculpture, National Endowment for the Humanities expression. Send $3 to the Arts Censorship practice of classical architecture, June 13-July 25, graphics, and decorative arts. The institute seeking entries in all media. $20. Send SASE for Art Journal is seeking articles for an issue titled providing grants of $750 to assist American Project, or to: ACLU, Dept. L, PO Box 794, 1992, at the academy in New York. Offered by features an interdisciplinary learning experience prospectus to: Riverwalk Arts Festival and "Sculphtre in Postwar Europe and America scholars to meet the costs of long-distance travel Medford, NY 11763. the academy's newly fonned Institute for the that can become the source of excitement, Exhibition, 19 W. Market St., York, PA 17401; 0945-1959)" to be guest-edited by Mona Hadler to the research collections of libraries, arcluves, Study of Classical Architecture, the program is creativity, and inspiration. Study includes slide 717/854-6400. and Joan Marter. The issue will focus on museums, or other repositories throughout the Arts Extension Service Publications provide aimed at professional architects, interior de­ lectures, gallery tours and discussion, painting sculpture as a locus for debate on viable artistic practical information and tools for arts signers, historic preservationists, students, and demonstrations, curriculum applications, United States and the world. Awards are made forms for a world in crisis. Papers are solicited to help defray such research expenses as management and community cultural develop­ others who seek in-depth supplemental training musical performance, and tours. The program Grants and Fellowships that address the social and political conlext for --- transportation, lodging, food, and photoduplica­ ment. Titles include Community Cultural in classical architecture. Subjects to be covered will be held July 13-18, July 27-August I, and sculpture in France, Great Britain, Germany, and tion. For information: Travel to Collections Planning Work Kit ($25); Fairs and Festivals in the include elements and theory of classical archi­ August 10-15, 1992. For information, send Fellowships in Museum Practice are new the United States. Sculpture, particularly Program, Division of Fellowships and Seminars, Northeast and Fairs and Festivals in the Southeast tecture, traditional construction, interior design postcard with name and address to: Teacher through the Smithsonian Institution's Office of abstract sculpture, needs consideration in the Rm. 316, National Endowment for the Humani­ ($7.50 each; $13/set); Going Public: A Field Guide and decoration, and rendering. For information: Institute, Education Division, National Gallery Museum Programs to support research and reassessment of postwar art; papers may ties, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, to Developments in Art in Public Places ($19.95); New York Academy of Art, 419 Lafayette St., of Art, Washington, DC 20565. study at the Smithsonian on practical problems examine its connection with teclmological Art Festival Work Kit ($14.95); Fundamentals of New York, NY 10003; 212/505-5300. DC 20506; 202/786-0463. Deadline: July 15, 1992. progress, construction techniques, or the in museum work, especially those related to Arts Management ($12); The Artist in Business: Request for Feedback. Scholars are trying to strengthening and expanding the educational appearance of archetypal themes. Submissions Reference Materials Awards of the National Basic Business Practices ($10); The Arts Administra­ Microcomputer Applications in Visual assess the feasibility and interest in organizing mission of museums. Professionals in museums need not be limited to these topics. Since existing Endowment for the Humanities support projects tionlnfernship Work Kit ($10); and Art Mmwge­ Resources Collections is a workshop to be held an interdiSciplinary workshop that would re­ and related fields are eligible to apply. literature on sculpture following World War II to prepare reference works that will improve ment Bibliography ($3). For information: AES, at the University of Texas at Austin, June 17-20, move the barriers to broader understandings of Fellowships are 2--6 months. Fellows receive a has been primarily formalist, papers that revise access to information and resources. Support is Division of Continuing Education, Goodell 1992. The workshop is designed for profession­ the complex cultural exchanges that character­ stipend of $2,000 per month. For information: or expand accepted perceptions about the period available for the creation of dictionaries, Bldg., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, als in the field of visual resources who want to ized the evolution of Buddhism across Asia. The Office of Museum Programs, Smithsonian or apply new methodological approaches are historical or linguistic atlases, encyclopedias, MA 01003; 413/545-2360. explore the advantages of automation in visual­ workshop seeks to assess the significance of the Institution, Washington, DC 20560; 202/357- encouraged. Send proposals to: Mona Hadler, concordances, reference grammars, data bases, resource management. The intermediate-level presence or preference for particular sutras in 3101. Deadline: May 1, 1992. Ph.D. Program in Art History/Box 110, text bases, and other projects that will provide Folklife Annual 90 is a collection of articles on training is geared toward curators who are particular contexts; interpret the presence and Graduate Center, CUNY,33 W. 42nd St., New essential scholarly tools for the advancement of the traditional folklife and customs of the United beyond the fundamentals of visual-resources preference for particular images of deities and Advanced Research Fellowships in India for York, NY 10036; and Joan Marter, Graduate research or for general reference purposes. States, published by the Library of Congress. collections management. Topics to be addressed their iconographic styles; and "read" Tibetan 1993-94 are available through the Indo-U.s. Program in Art History, Voorhees Hall, Rutgers Grants also may support projects that will This edition focuses on adaptations of Southeast include the potential for automation in visual­ names and handle Tibetan materials without Subcommission on Education and Culture. University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Deadline: assist scholars and researchers to locate European mural paintings in Pittsburgh; resource collections; introductions to hardware implying mastery or complete understanding of These grants are for all academic disciplines, November 1,1992. information about humanities documentation. traditional Polish-American commllllity murals and software; software specifics with demon­ that field. For information: Ruth Dunnell, Dept. except clinical medicine, and are for 6-10 Such projects result in scholarly guides that and religious paintings in Buffalo; and Baroque strations of various programs; fundamentals and of History, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022; months or 2--3 months. Applicants must be U.s. Ars Orientalis has redefined its scope. The allow researchers to determine the usefulness or painting in an Italian community in Philadel­ applications of prograrruning; needs assessment; [email protected]. citizens and hold the Ph.D. or comparable journal now solicits scholarly manuscripts on relevance of specific materials for their work. phia. To order, send $19 to: Superintendent of orientation to standards; preparing and writing professional qualifications. The program seeks the art and archaeology of Asia, including the Eligible for support are such projects as Documents, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA proposals; and future trends in automated to open new channels of communication ancient Near East and the Islamic world. A bibliographies, bibliographic data bases, 15250-7954; 202/783-3238. systems. between academic and professional groups in broad range of themes and approaches is catalogues raisonnes, other descriptive The lllliversity is also offering a Workshop the United States and India and to encourage a welcome. Articles of interest to scholars in catalogues, indexes, union lists, and other Part-Time Academic Employment in the in Visual Resources Fundamentals for wider range of research activity between the two diverse fields or disciplines are particularly guides to materials in the humanities. In both Humanities is a collection of essays that beginning slide curators in art and architecture, countries. Scholars and professionals with sought, as are suggestions for occasional areas, support is also available for projects that summarizes studies of part-time faculty June 22-27, 1992. The program will cover all limited or no prior experience in India are thematic issues and reviews of important books address important issues related to the design members; describes working conditions, legal aspects of management of an art and / or especially encouraged to apply. For information: in Western or Asian languages. Brief research or accessibility of reference works. For rights, administrative attitudes, and academic architecture slide collection. Included will be Council for International Exchange of Scholars, notes and responses to articles in previous issues information: Reference Materials, Rm. 318, llllions; and offers innovative policies and sessions on acquisitions and collection 3007 Tilden St., NW, Suite 5M, Box INDO, will also be considered. Send submissions to: National Endowment for the Humanities, strategies for change. Another section brings development; administration and management; Washington, DC 20008-3009; 202/686-7877. Managing Editor, Ars Orienfalis, Dept. of the Washington, DC 20506. Deadline: September 1, together 23 case studies from 2-year and 4-year classification and cataloguing; circulation and Deadline: June 15, 1992. History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann 1992, for projects beginning after July 1, 1993. colleges and lllliversities. For information: control; conservation and maintenance; facilities Arbor, MI 48109-1357. Modern Language Association, 10 Astor Pl., planning; and technical aspects of the produc­ The Fulbright Scholar Program for 1993-94 New York, NY 10003-6981. tion of slides. Use of both microcomputers and includes some 1,000 grants for research, mainframes in visual-resource collections will be combined research and lecturing, or university Internships Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences discussed and demonstrated. For information: lecturing in over 120 countries. Opportunities Publications ------by William G. Bowen and Julie Ann Sosa Fine Arts Continuing Education, University of range from 2 months to a full academic year. Women's Studio Workshop is looking for examines the academic job markets for 1997- Texas at Austin, PO Box 7879, Austin, TX 78713- Specific openings exist in almost every area of interns to work as studio assistants during its The Arts Censorship Project distributes a 2002 and projects substantial excess demand for 7879; 800/882-8784. the humanities and arts, among others, and Summer Arts Institute, 2 months of intensive variety of public-education materials, including faculty, with particularly severe imbalances many offerings allow scholars to propose their workshops in papermaking, book arts, the ACLU Arts Censorship Project, a 3-page projected in the humanities and social sciences. Western New Mexico University is offering 2 own lecturing or research projects. Eligibility silkscreen, and prinhnaking. Experience is not description of the crisis facing the arts in This study focuses on factors affecting the black-and-white photographiC workshops, July

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